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Putnam Camp
Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Winner of the 2007 Gradiva Award
An innovative work of biography that traces the lasting impact of the friendship between Sigmund Freud and pioneering American psychologist James Jackson Putnam.
In 1909 Sigmund Freud made his only visit to America, which included a trip to "Putnam...
And the Word Was
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2010
When the tragic death of his son compels Dr. Neil Downs to flee New York City for India, he takes a job as the resident physician at the American Embassy, where he is introduced to the paradoxes of Indian social and political life. Unable to mourn, and angry about a betrayal on the part of his wife,...
The Last Rendezvous
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
“Women are not supposed to write; yet I write.” –Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three,Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet–the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his poètes maudits, or “accursed poets,” a group that included...
Pushing Past the Night
Coming to Terms with Italy's Terrorist Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
December 15, 1969, was the most important day of Mario Calabresi's life, although he would not be born for another year. On that date, the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli fell to his death from a window at the Milan police headquarters, where he was being questioned about his role in the Piazza Fontana...
Another Life
On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden’s most highly respected writers
“Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend had said. At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer’s...
Oriana Fallaci
The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century, an inspiring and often controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage and established the "La Fallaci" style of interview.
Oriana Fallaci is known for her uncompromising vision. To retrace...
Madame Prosecutor
Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new...
by Edgar Morin, Stephane Hessel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
An incisive political tract that calls for a return to humanist values: equality, liberty, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out...
by Joel Dor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
About this Book...
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the...
Guapa
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East
Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval....
The Guilt Project
Rape, Morality, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a “hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness....
In the Distance with You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
ABOUT THIS BOOK...
This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, has lived a mysterious, ascetic life...
The Quickening
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But...
Hitler, My Neighbor
Memories of a Jewish Childhood, 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a young Jewish boy in Munich, living with Adolf Hitler as his neighbor.
Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family--the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author,...